carriers'kærɪənoun+someone whose employment involves carrying something+a self-propelled wheeled vehicle designed specifically to carry something+a large warship that carries planes and has a long flat deck for takeoffs and landings+an inactive substance that is a vehicle for a radioactive tracer of the same substance and that assists in its recovery after some chemical reaction+a person or firm in the business of transporting people or goods or messages+a radio wave that can be modulated in order to transmit a signal+a man who delivers the mail+a boy who delivers newspapers+(medicine) a person (or animal) who has some pathogen to which he is immune but who can pass it on to others+a rack attached to a vehicle; for carrying luggage or skis or the like+(genetics) an organism that possesses a recessive gene whose effect is masked by a dominant allele; the associated trait is not apparent but can be passed on to offspring

She couldn't have caught the disease directly, only through some carrier.

Advanced English Dictionary

+noun1 a company that carries goods or passengers from one place to another, especially by air: Delta Air Lines, the third-largest carrier in the US2 a military vehicle or ship that carries soldiers or equipment from one place to another: an armoured personnel carrierSee also-AIRCRAFT CARRIER, PEOPLE CARRIER3 a person who passes a disease to other people but does not suffer from it4 a metal frame that is fixed to a bicycle and used for carrying bags5 a person or thing that carries sth: Aquarius, the Water Carrier + a baby carrier (= for carrying a baby on your back or in front of you)6 (BrE) = CARRIER BAG

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